Tribe Swap Attempt
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The Tribe Swap Attempt was a modification created by me which swapped the blue and red tribe in Populous single player thus allowing you to play as the Dakini tribe. It was conducted for a planned mod-pack called The Dakini's Revenge, a new single-player campaign where you play as the Dakini tribe. In July 2011, I created a patch which only changed the game's instructions to swap the blue tribe with the Dakini, Chumara or the Matak. This was incoperated into PopEnhance.
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Sprites, Textures & Palette
I first changed three different files to achieve a tribe swap. The palette was changed first where I swapped the tribe colours around using the Palette Editor. This swapped all the colours correctly but left some sprites and objects to be wrong or the wrong colour. To fix this all the colours that were changed that were used in the sprite and texture files were swapped back so they remained correct. This was done using the Sprite Editor and the Raw Editor. This gives the impression that the game was designed for the player to have been red. The only thing that was wrong after these changes were the 3D objects and the colour bars in warning icons that go down the right side of the panel.
3D Object Change
The 3D object change was the second modification I did which gave the right objects to the blue and red tribe. This was done by swapping the object indices in the object index file. This was done using the 3D Object Switcher. The only things that I found out to be wrong now were the reincarnation site pillars, the windows in the player's guard towers, the chimneys on blue's huts (computer player) and the smoke positions. After that I eventually gave up.
Other possible way
The other possible and probably better way of doing a tribe swap is either by setting the controlling tribe to red with the sacrifice of losing blue as an AI controlled tribe or changing various memory offsets so that it draws the red tribe for the player's tribe and the blue tribe for the computer's tribe. I have touched on this but haven't completed a successful tribe swap.
PopEnhance
In July 2011 I completed a reasonable tribe swap which is incorperated in PopEnhance as a patch.
